At least eight people were killed in separate road accidents in four districts around the country on Tuesday evening and Wednesday.
In Feni, three people, including a freedom fighter and his granddaughter, were killed and eight others injured after a bus hit a human haulier in Sadar upazila’s Lemua Bridge area on Wednesday afternoon.
The deceased were identified as freedom fighter Abdus Sobhan, 75, his granddaughter Saika, 3, and Rehana Akhter, 26. All of them were residents of Kazir Dighi village.
Muhuriganj highway police outpost’s In-Charge Akbar Hossain said a Dhaka-bound Unique Paribahan bus rear-ended the smaller vehicle around 3:45pm, leaving two people dead on the spot and nine others injured.
One of the injured died on the way to hospital. Three others with critical injuries were later sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for better treatment
In Comilla, a woman was killed and five others injured when a bus crashed into a three-wheeler on the Comilla-Sylhet Highway in Burichang upazila on Wednesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Boishakhi Paul, 30, wife of Manik Chandra Paul of the upazila’s Rampur village, said Mahbubur Rahman, in-charge of Comilla- Mainamati Highway police outpost.
He said Boishakhi was killed on the spot.
In Khulna, a Khulna Medical College (KMC) student died from injuries sustained in a road accident on the bypass road in Labanchara area on Wednesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Arifur Rahman Akash, 23, a fifth-year student of 24th batch at KMC.
According to Labanchara police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Shafiqul Islam, Akash left on his motorcycle for Rupsha Bridge via Zero Point around 8:30am, when he got into an accident on the bypass road near the station.
Akash was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital, but the on-duty doctors declared him dead upon arrival.
Police suspect a private car hit Akash's motorcycle from behind and left him with critical injuries, the OC said.
In Dhaka, three people were killed after a bus crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, commonly known as Postogola bridge, in Postogola area on Tuesday evening.
The deceased were identified as Bachchu Mia, 60, his son Zobayed, 28, and Syed Ahmed, 30.
Bachchu and Zobayed are from Keraniganj, and Ahmed is from Shariatpur.
Shyampur police station OC Mizanur Rahman said three passengers of the auto-rickshaw were killed on the spot when a Salsabil Paribahan bus rammed into the three-wheeler around 6:15pm.